I am very new to QGIS, so please bear with me.
I have a ".shp" file, which is contains a set of boundaries for suburbs of Australia. I opened it to QGIS and I would like to export it into a CSV file so that the final file would be like following.
POSTCODE, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE
When I select "Layer > Open attribute table" I can see the "postcode" column.
I had a look at a similar question here
Getting list of coordinates for points in layer using QGIS?
Which told me to simply go to "Layer > Save as" and then type "GEOMETRY=AS_XY" or "GEOMETRY=AS_XYZ" in the "Layer" section of the "OGR creation options".
I followed exactly, but the latitude and longitude values are not being returned.
Answer
You're looking at the right question, just not the right answer! The reason that that worked for the answer you were looking at is that the data was only in points. Since your data is in polygons, it won't work.
BWill's answer further down is what you need. It will copy all the co-ordinates describing each polygon into WKT format, which is a standard format, although you may need to do some cleaning up depending on your purpose.
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